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Megachile griseopicta. 
Bingham erwähnt dazu: 
»ilf. gribodci Rad. from Sikkim seems to me a smaller form 
of M. fratcrna Sm.« 
161. Megachile grisea F. 
1794. — Apis grisea Fabricius, Entom System. IV. p. 460 n. 101—102. 
1798. — Apis grisea Fabricius, Suppl. entom. System, p. 276 n. 101 & 102. 
1804. — Anthophora grisea Fabricius, Syst. Piez. p. 379 n. 30. 
1896. — Megachile ? grisea Dalla Torre, Caial. Hymen. X. p. 432. 
* Anthophora ferrugineo-villosa, abdomine nigro; segmento- 
rum marginibus griseis. — Long. ? 
Habitat in Italia, Dr. Allioni.« 
162. Megachile griseopicta Rad. 
1882. Megachile griseopicta Radoszkowski, £ ^ Wiadom. z nauk przyrodz. 
Warszow. II. p. 81. 
1897. — Megachile griseopicta Bingham, ^ Fauna of Br. India, Hymenopt. 
I. p. 486. 
»Nigra; clypeo punctato, mandibulis quadridentatis, dente 
3. obtuso; capite thoraceque rufescentibus, metathorace albido- 
villoso, segmentis abdominalibus primis utrinque albido notatis. 
Alis hyalinis apice fortiter lumatis violaceo micantibus; 
$ — scopa albida. — Long. 12 mm. 
£ — segmento 6. abdominali albido piloso, apice crenato. 
Long. 9 mm. 
Sikkim (Nordabhang des Himalaja). 
(Beschreibung polnisch). 
Bingham beschreibt die Art: 
»$. — Head and thorax finely punctured, shining; clypeus 
convex, triangulär, its anterior margin arched. Black; the front 
of the head, a broad line on the occiput and the sides of the 
pro-and mesonotum with fulvous pubescence; the median Seg¬ 
ment posteriorly, a spot a the base of the 1. abdominal segment, 
abbreviated narrow fasciae on each side at the base of the 2.—5. 
and an entire fascia across the base of the 6. segment covered 
with wirte pubescence; wings hyaline at base, fuscous, with a 
purple effulgence towards apex. 
vcir. — the fasciae at the base ot abdominal segments 
2. -6. wanting. — Long. 12—14 mm. 
I am not quite certain whether I have rightly identified 
this species.« 
